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MAY 8, 2021

A two-judge division bench of the Supreme Court of India on Thursday denied relief in a petition by the Election Commission of India seeking to restrict media coverage of open courts. While considering the request in the given case, Chief Election Commissioner of India v M.R.

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APRIL 3, 2025

Amnesty International welcomed on Wednesday the decision of Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court to accept a class action lawsuit from 24 asylum seekers who were arbitrarily detained by Lithuanian authorities between 2021 and 2022.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India in a press release Sunday that 43 individuals allegedly involvement in attacks at the Indian High Commission in London and at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco have been identified. NIA issued a year-end press release that detailed the major achievements made by the agency in the year 2023.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called for the European Union (EU) to urge the government of India to end human rights abuses in a joint statement released Monday ahead of the EU-India Human Rights Dialogue.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Amnesty International released a report Thursday alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021 Pegasus project disclosures that sent shockwaves through India.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2021

The order was made with respect to an interlocutory application filed by the petitioners pending disposal of their main writ petition of 2017 that seeks basic human amenities for the Rohingya refugees in India. They also referred to the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) decision in January last year in The Gambia v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Supreme Court of India Saturday ruled that human rights activist Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba must remain in prison despite procedural failures in his trial, overruling the Bombay High Court. ” According to the court, such beliefs “must be muzzled by the voice of Rule of Law.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Rishabh Yadav, a postgraduate law student at the University of Delhi. There is an actual need for strong laws to tackle this issue. It debunks suspected WhatsApp forwards and social media posts.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The report alleges that individuals from Myanmar were enticed into selling their kidneys to affluent patients, potentially infringing upon Indian and international laws prohibiting organ trafficking. The post Major India hospital accused of organ trafficking appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi blamed India Thursday for the assassination of two civilians on Pakistani soil, saying that the government has “credible evidence” linking the murder of Pakistani civilians and Indian agents.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Kappan has been in custody since September 9 under the PMLA case and was earlier detained for more than 700 days under the controversial Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) law. Earlier on September 9, the Supreme Court of India granted bail to Kappan in his UAPA case.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

As the global data privacy law patchwork continues to expand, companies need to think beyond the U.S. and European Union and ensure they're paying attention to places such as India and Canada, which are inching toward enacting laws with major penalties and tight data transfer restrictions.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Supreme Court of India on Friday upheld an order of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) as legally enforceable in India, effectively blocking the sale of Future Group (“Future”) to Reliance Industries Limited (“Reliance”). The sale was part of a ?247.3 billion (US$3.4

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India filed a First Information Report (FIR) against the NGO Environics Trust (ET) and its top officials for allegedly violating the provisions of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act ( FCRA ), 2010. ” The Adivasi people are a collective of several tribal groups indigenous to India.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

Official discrimination against people affected by leprosy remains codified by way of more than 100 laws worldwide, and this status quo must end, urged a senior UN official on Friday. “It At present, India has the highest number of leprosy cases in the world.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

However, the Division Bench held that there was no reason for the status quo order and that statutory bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Competition Commission of India (CCI) cannot be restrained from “proceeding in accordance with law.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea’s public hearings concerning international obligations to mitigate marine pollution started Monday in Hamburg, Germany following a request from the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Guest Blog: Rethinking Private International Law Education – Insights from a Global Webinar Written by: Corinna Chen (CAPLUS research intern, 2024, Sydney Law School, Australia) Private international law (PIL) plays a critical role in shaping how future legal professionals and citizens engage with a complex, interconnected world.

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MAY 27, 2025

Written by George Jacob, Incoming Associate, Bombay Law Chambers Globalisation has led to a rise in cross-border disputes, making international service of summons increasingly relevant. While domestic service in India is straightforward, sending summons to foreign defendants involves complex legal procedures. Sivadasan. [1]

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The government stated that the Catholic leaders made slanderous statements about Hong Kong and inappropriately intervened in Hong Kong’s internal affairs. The petition was launched on November 1 by ten bishops of the Catholic Church that hail from various countries, including the US, Australia, India and Nigeria.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2024

The US State Department designated Pakistan as a CPC on January 4 following a recommendation from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission established by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Supreme Court of India delivered a verdict condemning the practice known as “bulldozer justice,” local media reported Sunday. The apex court of India categorically denounced unlawful demolitions as “unacceptable,” highlighting their disproportionate impact on marginalized communities, especially Muslims.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such breakdown ultimately led to the collapse of the public order and the complete undermining of the rule of law.” ” According to Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), the court found that the actions of the respondents directly contributed to the economic crisis.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on Taliban pressures on minority Hindu and Sikh populations. The international community, and the US in particular, must search for an alternative to the Taliban regime.

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JULY 16, 2021

The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday indefinitely barred Mastercard, a payment operating company, from issuing new debit, credit or prepaid cards to customers in India over the company’s non-compliance with Indian rules on local data storage. and Diners Club International Ltd.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

By Harddit Bedi* and Akansha Tripathy** Introduction It is beyond dispute that The Convention of International Sales of Goods, 1980 (CISG) has facilitated international trade disputes. First , it is excluded because auctions are often subject to special rules under the applicable national law , and it is best to not harmonize them.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. The products emerging from the discussions between these entities are described in brief within the Rules.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Emanuel Xhindi is a special correspondent for JURIST and a law student in the University of Tirana Faculty of Law in Tirana, Albania. Being in a post-COVID-19 era, public interest seems to carry more and more weight, even in an international context, especially regarding the health sector.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Copyright ICJ/CIJ/Frank van Beek This blog post is Part 2 of a three-part series highlighting the main legal arguments presented during the hearings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the advisory opinion request related to States obligations regarding climate change. Spain stressed that Resolution A/76/L.75

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. PM Trudeau’s statements have brought long-standing and amicable ties between India and Canada to a historic low.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A new book entitled Blurry Boundaries of Public and Private International Law: Towards Convergence or Divergent Still? and co-edited by Dr Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit (of the University of Tasmania) and Dharmita Prasad (Jindal Global Law School, O.P Jindal Global University) has just been released by Springer.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

India raised concerns on Thursday over reports of extortion calls received by Indians located in Canada. In the recent period, India-Canada relations have soured due to Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau accusing India of involvement in a Sikh separatist leader’s assassination on Canadian soil. But it is a matter of concern.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related national and international developments in and affecting India. Here Apoorv Vats, a second-year student at NALSAR University of Law, files from Hyderabad on the latest disengagement of Indian and Chinese forces from a border position in contention since 2020.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The determination of the law applicable to limitation is a complex exercise. This issue could not be simpler in India. The limitation in India is governed by the Limitation Act, 1963 (“Limitation Act”). The Supreme Court of India (“SC”) and the Law Commission of India have characterised the law of limitation as a procedural law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The Supreme Court of India (SCI) Friday granted bail to journalist Siddique Kappan. However, the United States Committee on International Religious Freedom believes that Kappan is imprisoned because of his “religious identity and for reporting on religious freedom conditions.” Chief Justice of India U.U.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

In a short dismissal order, the court considered international law and sovereignty principles to reject all prayers in the writ petition. He suggested treating the writ petition as a representation to the government of India, which the court acknowledged without providing specific directions.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Amnesty International released a statement on Wednesday warning of the Indian government’s disproportionate restrictions on the right to peaceful protest to quell the “ Dilli Chalo” farmers protest. The post Amnesty International: India derogates farmers’ freedom to peaceful protest appeared first on JURIST - News.

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